I'm not really up on QM, but the first thing that comes to mind is that axisless rotation could be considered to be akin to spreading - a bit like the expansion of the universe but confined to a closed surface. In that respect, I think the axis would become the origin but the effect, when viewed from 90 deg to the axis, would appear to be rotation.

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